Latchkey Highway - Paperback

by C. L. Herridge (Author)

After hearing of her estranged mother's death, a twenty-something art student re-examines her itinerant teen years in this fictionalized memoir. Connie was twelve when her mother sought a separate path to an unencumbered life in San Francisco, leaving her daughter pinballing around two states among friends, family, acquaintances, and even strangers. Published at the dawn of the #MeToo movement, Latchkey Highway chronicles an ordinary girl's not-so-ordinary journey on the west coast in the mid-eighties-a kinetic tale of new homes and new friends, colorful cohorts and subtle adversaries, strange days and imaginative nights. A shrewd ingénue learns to adapt and to never get too comfortable, and that where disappointment and danger are routine, creativity is consolation, art is joy. A kid fumbles her way into adulthood and every once in a while, the world spins right for a bit before spinning right out of control again.

Author Biography

C.L. Herridge is a designer and writer living in Oregon. She studied graphic design and arts & letters at Portland Community College and Portland State University, respectively. Herridge volunteers with the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County and lives in Oregon's wine and timber region with her husband, a sous chef. She writes fiction, cultivates hops, and dabbles in folk art. Herridge's first novel, Cascadia Park is available on Amazon.